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GHUGOLATE DIFFER.

No. 552,833 Patented Jan. 7, 1896.

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[.No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. C GOUSSET CHOCOLATE DIPPER.

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Patented Jan. 7, M396.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CYPRIEN GOUSSET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CHOCOLATE-DIPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,833, dated January 7, 1896.

Application filed November 21, 1894. Serial No. 529,433. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CYPRIEN GoUssE'r, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Chocolate-Dipper, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of devices which are used for dipping cream-drops into a chocolate solution and which may be used for dipping candies of various sorts. Such dippers have usually a series of open-sided and open-topped pockets, and it is necessary to cover each pocket to prevent the drops orcandies from being displaced during the dipping process, and it is also necessary to have the cover of an open structure, so that the solution will not be prevented from completely coating the articles dipped.

The object of my invention is to produce a cover for chocolate-dippers which subserves the above ends, and which is very cheap and simple in construction, easily applied to the dipper, which oiiers but little surface for the accumulation of solidified chocolate, and which may be instantly operated to open or close the pockets.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specili-v cation, in which similar gures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken plan view of a dipper provided with my improved cover. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 4, showing more clearly the construction of the several parts; and Fig. et is a broken sectional plan on the line i i of Fig. 3.

The chocolate-dipper has a suitable skeleton frame 10, which may be of any approved construction and which should have legs 11 on which it may stand. The frame has also suitable end hails l2 and is provided with a series of open-topped and open-sided pockets 13, formed by intersecting and longitudinal cross-wires; but the construction of the frame and pockets is not shown or described with great detail, because such construction forms no part of this invention and the pockets may be formed and supported in any suitable manner, and the pockets, instead of being shaped to hold cream-drops, as illustrated, may be elongated to hold candy sticks or may be given any desired shape.

At the ends of the dipper and opposite the hails 12 are inverted-U-shaped levers 15, which are preferably bent outward in the center, as shown at 16, in order that they may be more conveniently grasped and operated,

and the legs of these levers are provided with clips 17, which are pivoted to clips 18 on the sides of the bails 12, although the U-shaped levers 15 may be pivoted or fulcrumed in any other suitable manner without affecting the principle of the invention. These levers are at their lower ends secured, as shown at 19, to cross-bars 20,and each cross-bar has secured to it an independent set ofparallel bars 2l, which extend the full length of the dipper and over the center of the pockets 13, the bars being held to slide in keepers 22 on cross-bars 1i, which are secured to the frame and assist in supporting the pockets 13, while the ends of the strips or bars 21 are, at the end of the dipper opposite the lever to which they are attached, connected by a cross-bar 23. There are two sets of these sliding cross-bars or strips 21, one set being Worked by one lever and secured to one rod or cross-bar 20, while the other set of strips or bars are connected in a similar way to the opposite lever 15, and the strips or bars of one lever are alternated with those of the other, so that when the two levers 15 are moved the strips or bars 21 are all moved together, but one set moves in a direction opposite to that in which the other moves.

The slide bars or strips 21 are providedwith cross-arms 24, preferably formed of Wire loops in order that they Inay be as open as possible,'so as not to hold too much solution, and when the upper ends of the levers 15 are thrown outward the arms 24 are all moved so as to align with points between the several series of pockets; but when the tops of the 1evers are moved inward toward the hails 12 the arms are brought exactly over the pock- IOO ets 13 and thus prevent the cream-drops 25 (see Fig. l)r from being forced out ofthe pockets during' the dipping process.

lVhen the clipper is used, the levers l5 are tipped outward, as in Fig. l, the several pockets iilled with the drops to be dipped, and then to operate the dipper it is oni)7 necessary to lift it and dip it in the usual manner, as by ,rraspingg` the bails l2. The levers l5 may be simultaneously grasped, and these levers are naturally squeezed toward the hails 12,and f thus Work the strips or bars 2l so as to brin g 4the retaining-arms 2i above the cream-drops.

Having,` thus described :my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters f Patentl. The combination of a chocolate dipper, having a series of pockets and a cover connected thereto and adapted to be moved parallel to the upper face thereof, said coverhav ing arms adapted when the cover is moved,

to closethe 'mouths of the pockets, substan tially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a chocolate dipper having1 a series of pockets, yot' a cover comprising` a series of slide bars, and laterally extending' retaining arms, substantially as described.

The combination, with a chocolate dipper having a series of pockets, of a series of slide bars held to niove in keepers on the chocolate dipper, and laterally extending retaining arms to project overthe pockets, substantially as described.

, 4. The combination, with the chocolate dipf per having` a series of pockets, of the slide bars held to move longitudinally on the dipper and connected at the ends by cross bars,

laterally-extending retaining arms on the slide bars, and a lever mechanism to move the bars, 4substantially as described.

5. The combination,with the chocolate dipper having' a series of pockets, of the slide bars movable on the Clipper, the cross bars connecting the slide bars, the retaining arms projecting from the slide bars, and a tilting' lever at the end of the clipper to move the slide bars, substantially as described.

G. The combination, with the chocolate dipper having a series oi' pockets and end hails. of the connected slide bars on the top of the dipper, the retaining,` arnis on the slide bars` and the U-shaped lever fulcruined on the hails and connected with the slide bars, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with the chocolate dipper having a series of pockets and end hails.

4of the U -shaped levers opposite the bails and :fulcrnined thereon, the double series of slide bars connected with the levers and `movable above the pockets, and the retaining arms on the slide bars, substantially as described.

8. The combination of a chocolate Clipper` having a series of pockets yand a cover inounrf 

